Save your aurum for boosters which in the long run are actually going to give you an advantage.

I use aurum gear only for special occasions. If you concentrate on learning the core mechanics of the game, and get a god feel for normal ISK weapon, Aurum items will actually feel more valuable when you use them rather than just burning through them in pub matches.

Grind your way up using ISK. When you get comfortable fool around with some Aurum stuff when you think its necessary. Your K/D may take a beating for the time being but at least you won't be wasting money.

All those proto Aurum fits you see? Looks better than it actually is. You need the passive skills and modules to effectivly back them. I'm killing Aurum protos all day with cheap fits.

Edit: What the guy above me said is true. Type I BPOs are great, and if you get a few modules/equipment/weapons you know you will use a lot, you can save up ISK for better fits.

You should only ever spend AUR on bpo's, boosters, and uvt's. everything else is just you pissing money away

Dust and Eve are tied and will be joined soon. The amount of Isk in Eve is astronomical to what is in Dust.

On that point, there is no reason for saving Isk and using BPOs. You're just keeping the match reward low. As everyone spends more on fittings, the rewards will get bigger and compensate properly. As you might have seen, with influx of Aur proto suits in matches.

You should be aiming for little to no Isk gain for the night/week. Else, you unnecessarily handicapped yourself. You're a Merc, they only use Isk for gear. There is no saving for retirement home... ( yes, i have reserve for unknown) The goal is to win/kill/get top war points.

Only reason for BPO is because you want no skin in the game, and don't think you will improve/give it your all. Why not play better by forcing yourself not to die wastefully...

Aurum for Augments only. For Corp fights, best in slot weapons,equipment is usually Aurum only. Right now. So, you'll need it for that too.

Learn to play with expensive fittings, not throw away ones...

Unless getting Isk makes you happy. But I'm telling you, you will get crushed when Eve attaches to Dust.

You might be saving now, but my lvl 2 assault suit was able to eat a grenade with shield only weeks ago.... Wait for real players.

my post was directed at AUR items like the proto suits and AUR weapons which are one use items you pay for with real money and rarely last a match, and since the majority of my isk goes on dropships a couple of bpo's for my dropsuits are really useful for keeping my costs down.

hell I get killed by militia assaults more frequently than any other gun...